Yamaha Tyros2 Owner's Manual - Page 55

Quick Guide Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs-Song Recording Reference on page 121 The powerful and easy-to-use Song Creator feature lets you record your own keyboard performances to the user drive, optional external devices, or the optionally installed hard disk. With multiple channels for recording, comprehensive editing features, plus the use of the style and the Multi Pads, you can record complex, fully orchestrated pieces of music in any music style or arrangement-from solo piano and church organ to rock band, big band, Latin ensemble, and even a full symphony orchestra-quickly, easily and all by yourself! ■ Memory operations in Song Recording Record Memory area for recording a song (RAM) ● Quick Recording With this method, you can quickly and easily record a song, without having to make detailed settings. ● Multi Recording With this method, you can record data to each channel independently, one by one, until you have a finished multi-channel song. This method also lets you record several channels simultaneously. To use this, set which part (Right 1-3, LEFT, Multi Pad, each part of the selected style, etc) is assigned to each MIDI channel before recording. Save Memory drives for saving the recorded song • User drive • USB drive (optional) • Hard disk drive (optional) Load a song to be recorded/edited to this area. • When creating a new song: Load an empty song data to this memory area by pressing the [REC] button and the [STOP] button simultaneously. • When editing/re-recording the already recorded song: Load the song data to this memory area by selecting the desired song saved to the USER/ USB/HD (optional) drives. Quick Recording 1 Press the SONG CONTROL [REC] button and the [STOP] button simultaneously to prepare a blank song ("New Song") to the Memory area for recording (shown above). 2 Press the [REC] button to enter the Song Record mode. The [REC] button and the [PLAY/PAUSE] button flash. 3 Make the desired panel settings for your keyboard perfor- mance. Below are some important things you should or may want to do before recording: • Check the on/off status of each keyboard part (RIGHT 1, RIGHT 2, RIGHT 3, LEFT pages 25, 26, 27 • Check the voice of each keyboard part (RIGHT 1, RIGHT 2, RIGHT 3, LEFT pages 25, 26, 27 • Set the desired tempo...page 154 • Determine the time signature (beat) by selecting a style (even when you do not use a style page 31 • Turn the [ACMP] and [SYNC START] button on if you wish to use style playback page 31 • Make the desired panel settings using One Touch Setting, if you want to use style playback page 36 • Check whether the selected style is appropriate or not. If necessary, select the desired style page 31 • Check whether the selected Multi Pad Bank is appropriate or not. If necessary, select the desired bank page 38 • Turn on [HARMONY/ECHO] if desired...page 39 • Press one of the REGISTRATION MEMORY buttons if desired page 54 55 Tyros2 Owner's Manual